Psalms 90:5

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.